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Cathryn Carson

A.B., 1990, University of Chicago, history and philosophy of science; also completed requirements for A.B., physics, and S.B., mathematicsA.M., 1993, Harvard University, physics Ph.D., 1995, Harvard University, history of science

Primary fields

History of 20th-century physics: conceptual, cultural, social, politicalRelations between science and philosophy and between scientists and philosophersHistory of science in Germany and the United StatesNuclear historyHistory and ethnography of contemporary research institutions

Secondary fields

History of technologyModern German historyIntellectual history (European, U.S.)

Current research

Heidegger and modern theoretical physicsEthnography of data science (within the Berkeley Institute for Data Science)Engineering nuclear waste: Constructing knowledge and uncertainty across timescales

Carson, Cathryn. "Beyond reconstruction: CERN's second generation accelerator program as an indicator of shifts in West German science." In Physics and politics: Research and research support in twentieth century Germany in international perspective, ed. Helmuth Trischler and Mark Walker, 107-130. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, v. 5. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2010.